Senior Rust Engineer · Guitarist · Composer

Wojciech BatorI build fast backend systems — and play guitar in Virya & Refaktor

Senior Rust engineer with over 10 years shipping high-performance backends — currently on the pricing platform at G2A (also fluent in Go and Node). Off the clock I'm a guitarist and composer in Virya and Refaktor. Same brain, two outputs. Open to freelance work — take a look around, or .

Engineering

Senior Rust Engineer · distributed systems · production ownership

I build backend systems, mostly in Rust. At G2A I work on pricing, recommendations, messaging and Redis-heavy paths under real marketplace traffic. I usually take a problem from profiling and architecture through implementation, deployment and production support.

I care about bounded concurrency, predictable failure handling and code that is still understandable after the first incident. I use Go, TypeScript and frontend tooling when the system needs them. Rust is the part I am strongest in.

Open source · Rust

CrowdRelay

Self-hosted backend for fan acquisition, referrals, deterministic rewards, weighted draws, concert interest, admission passes and QR check-ins. PostgreSQL is the source of truth; external delivery runs through a transactional outbox.

Product · Astro + Rust backend

virya.music

Band site, merch store, field game, fan accounts and concert workflows. Static-first frontend with Stripe, InPost, server-side integrations and CrowdRelay behind the stateful parts.

Stack I use

RustTokioAxumSQLxGoRabbitMQKafkaRedisPostgreSQLKubernetesDockerAWSTypeScriptAstro

Selected impact

  • 60–70 → 15–30 msReworked the price-simulation path by profiling the full call chain, changing data flow and removing unnecessary requests.
  • ~40% faster cartBuilt a Rust recommendation service used by cart and product bundles, reducing cross-service work and improving conversion and revenue.
  • Up to ~40k msg/sDesigned and benchmarked a bounded RabbitMQ worker model with backpressure, explicit ack/nack behaviour, reconnect control and graceful shutdown. Read the note →
  • ~2× lower latencyReduced Redis latency with thinner records, search indexes, batching, pipelining and fewer network round-trips. Read the note →
  • Production ownershipOwn critical services from technical design and implementation through observability, Kubernetes deployment, incident analysis and follow-up changes.

Portfolio

What I've done or participated in as an artist

Seed Of Doubt

Seed Of Doubt symbolizes the beginning of distrust—a single moment, word, or gesture that plants uncertainty in the mind. It starts small, almost invisible, but once it's there, it grows. Like a weed in a garden, it slowly twists around everything that was once pure, honest, and strong.

Seed Of Doubt

Unmasked

Unmasked is a first single from Virya's upcoming album. It's a catchy metalcore song with groovy guitars and drums. It's a bit of a departure from the band's usual sound, but it's still very much in the Virya vein. The mix of harsh and choir vocals is very unique for this genre. Enjoy!

Unmasked

Dualism

Dualism is my solo release. Delicate melodies clash with furious riffs as an analogy of everyone's life. There are ups and downs in life, but still it's worthy to keep moving, whatever it takes. Enjoy and stay positive!

Dualism

Entropy

Entropy is Artyfiction's penultimate release. We are heading towards Split... Good song with good memories and nice animation created by our talented bassist Mirek Berg. A bit of a sad lyrics that might remind you where we're all going. Summary of the process called life. Enjoy!

Entropy

Złoty Chłopak

A brand new official video from Refaktor band. We are highlighting differences in society and we are condemning the fact, that there's a special cast of people in Poland, that can do more than the others without any permissions. Yet another protest Refaktor song. Enjoy!

Złoty Chłopak

Virya

A playthrough video for one of our upcoming releases. Virya will hit the crowd in 2023 and we aim to make something both fans and us will enjoy. For now, give us a shot and see our playthrough.

Virya

Klapki

The debut single of a brand new Refaktor band. For more info, check out my blog post about Refaktor project. Klapki is a song about a torn polish guy who disagrees with poor government decisions. He knows he can do little to fix it so sometimes he just prefers to put a blinders on and chill.

Klapki

The Hater

The Hater was released by Artyfiction at 17.07.2022. It condemns over-the-top amounts of hate that are recently flushed over the internet. Are you hater or being hated? Who didn't face hate even once? Watch out our official video and share your thoughts.

The Hater

Wojciech Bator - Singularity II: Reborn

The dream continues as the crew approaches the black hole. Will they find answers there? Or maybe people will never stop looking? Watch the grand finale of this epic journey! Singularity II crowns an epic tale. Rafał Paluszek took care of the movie, Wojciech Bator composed and recorded the musical setting. Enjoy!

Singularity II: Reborn

Wojciech Bator - Singularity I: Edge of the Horizon

People have always dreamed. Civilization has made progress and made dreams come true. Highly advanced humanity has embarked on a bold plan to explore the supermassive black hole. This is the first part of their story. The film was created by Rafał Paluszek and the music by Wojciech Bator. The two of us have prepared an epic journey to the limits of knowledge for you.

Singularity I: Edge of the Horizon

Wojciech Bator - Warning! Genius at work

Warning! Genius at work is a piece that I composed to Lootnick as a thank you for creating my new guitar. It turned out better than I thought and I decided to include it in my music portfolio as well. This time, in terms of music, you will find 100% Wojciech Bator here. The films were made by my wife Madzia and I edited them into a product.

Warning! Genius at work

Wojciech Bator - The Nightingale

The Nightingale is Wojciech Bator's official debut as a solo artist. You can write a lot about the single and I will create a more informative post about the production. Rafał Paluszek made a film and conducted a photo session. Paweł Kardis recorded the drums and provided advice, Axel Ostrowski prepared the drums mix. Wojciech Bator did the rest :)

The Nightingale

Wojciech Bator - On The Scent

This is the leitmotif of the story Red Eye. Enriched with a great detective drawing by my very talented wife - Madzia. I added better mastering and bass track. You can find the song as OST on my YouTube.

On The Scent

Wojciech Bator - Czerwone Oko

Second project made together with Radio Arkham. As part of it, I created a guitar and keyboards soundtrack, and programmed the drums.

Czerwone Oko

Wojciech Bator - Maski

Composing music for a story in the atmosphere of horror. I created a guitar soundtrack for Radio Arkham with ambient elements and Arturia keyboard backgrounds. A moody and a bit of spooky yet quite enjoyable podcast.

Maski

Firing Lines

The second album of the progressive band Artyfiction. I participated in composing, recording and mastering the album. I recorded this disc as the first one on Fractal Audio Ax FX III. More metal than rock.

Firing Lines

Preliminaries

The first album of the progressive band Artyfiction. You will hear me rocking on guitars here. Rocky, old school. Made by Perła in Perlazza Studio. Much apprieciated!

Preliminaries

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